Yes, it's pretty bad. I think Lex is probably on to something with his observation:
It makes absolutely no sense to me that this simple case hasn't been optimized yet. And if something doesn't make sense, it usually involves politics. I'm very, very much hoping he's wrong. -- Cédric On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Alexey Zinger <[email protected]>wrote: > Wow, this one's a doozy. All that talk about multicore this and parallel > that and how wonderful language extensions through libraries are, and in the > end one of the most basic programming constructs is essentially broken and > the "work-around" is a choice between extra boilerplate with reduced clarity > and safety or compiler extension trickery. I think that's nuts at this > stage of the game. > > Alexey > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Wednesday, May 25, 2011 2:32 PM > *Subject:* Re: [The Java Posse] Scala: A Better Java for Android > > Good to see Scala on Android (or any other language, for that matter) but > I'm a bit concerned by the performance aspect (particularly in light of the > recent > discussion about Scala's poor loop comprehension > performances<https://groups.google.com/group/scala-user/browse_thread/thread/86adb44d72ef4498?hl=en&pli=1#> > ). > > -- > Cédric > > > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Chris Koerner <[email protected]>wrote: > > > http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/5836463058/scala-a-better-java-for-android > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
